Giotto
  • Giotto was responsible for the renewal of western figurative arts with the ideals of ancient Greece
  • painted frescos for the important Christian Basilica of San Francisco in Assisi and the Basilica of San Pietro in Rome
  • commonly known of Giotto's works was for rich Scrovegini family in Padua
  • he credited with the re-discovery of knowledge that was a lost in the middle ages
  • reconstruction of the illusion 3 dimensional space and two dimensional surface
  • he was a inspiration to other artists as well Michelangelo
  • born in 1267 in Florence Italy
  • died in 1337
  • Italian Renaissance painted Giotto di Bondone
  • Painter, sculptor, and architect
  • In 1303 to 1305 he decorated the Arena Chapel in Padua
  • He created the nativity painting
  • He is best known for his humanistic religious fresco
He made 38 frescos at Scrovegini Chapel in Padua

Donatello
  • his full name was Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
  • born in Florence Italy on 1386
  • died at age 80 on 1466
  • he was a sculptor
  • he created a masterpiece called the Saint George
  • from 1443-1553 he worked in the northern Italian city of Padua
  • there he designed a monument high alter piece for the church known as Saints, he also created a bronze equastrian statue of the military commander Gattamelata
  • he spent his old age working for Medici in Florence
  • he influenced Michelangelo
  • no children and not married
famous of David,which was the first nude sculpture of the Renaissance

Botticelli
  • was one of the finest artists in the Renaissance
  • His full name is Allesandro di Mariano Filipepi
  • was born in Florance in 1455
  • Was always ill in his lifetime
  • Between 1406-1469, he trained as an artist by Fra Filippo Lippi
  • was a florentine painter
  • He also painted Virgin and child, The birth,Mary and Saint,Sandron La Primavera.

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